However, the more seemingly simple a case is, the more complicated it is to handle!
As the investigation deepened, problems in the case emerged.
After the investigation by the police handling the case and Lin Xuan and others, there was only one village around Yunxiang Mountain, where the crime occurred, called Huishui Village.
There are only 16 households in Huishui Village, and among these 16 households, not one family owns a motorcycle or tricycle, let alone a car or a small truck.
The people in the village are all farmers. Some members of the family go out to work and only come back during the Chinese New Year!
Moreover, Ye Mo also checked along the way. The roads leading to the village were all small roads. Even motorcycles could not drive in, let alone tricycles and cars.
In this era, many rural areas do not have roads built.
The reason why there is a road at the place where the crime occurred was that it was built by the commune in the past, and the road behind it was also abandoned.
According to the investigation, even many villagers in Huishui Village do not know that there is a road leading to the top of Yunxiang Mountain.
According to normal logic, the 16 households in Huishui Village can basically be ruled out of suspicion!
Because most of them are old people and left-behind children, and they don’t know how to ride a motorcycle or drive a tricycle, it is basically impossible to carry an adult’s body to the top of Yunxiang Mountain and dump it by just backing or dragging it.
Carrying a living person and carrying a dead person are two different concepts.
Moreover, the nearest household in Huishui Village was three kilometers away from the crime scene, and it was such a steep uphill road.
It’s definitely not possible without transportation!
Moreover, on the road where the crime occurred, the task force also found traces similar to those left by tricycle and motorcycle tires. The traces were relatively new and were basically left three or four days ago.
Members of the task force also investigated the canteen at the intersection and found that the owner of the canteen did not have a car at home.
Every time I go to town to buy goods, I always walk!
It takes two or three hours to walk back and forth!
They also sell some grain, oil, cigarettes and the like.
The profit is not high, you can’t even make a thousand yuan in a year.
Moreover, the canteen owner did not have time to commit the crime. He stayed at his daughter's house after the Chinese New Year and did not return until yesterday.
The incident occurred four days ago.
After some investigation, it was basically determined that none of the nearby villagers were suspects.
And he didn't even know such a short, fat man who was 1.55 meters tall and had a disability in his left leg.
…
These are not the focus of the case.
What’s even more outrageous is yet to come!
Ye Mo and Lin Xuan returned to the Public Security Bureau for a meeting. The surveillance and investigation team investigated the surveillance over the past seven days and found no cars or motorcycles entering that road!
There were quite a few large trucks and buses on the main road, but none of them went in the direction of the crime.
That road was not a traffic artery in the first place. It was built by the commune to facilitate the transportation of grain.
No one in Huishui Village has a car at home, so it makes perfect sense for this situation to happen!
Now, the case becomes bizarre.
The crime occurred at the top of Yunxiang Mountain, with a rural road just above it. There were traces of wheels on the rural road.
However, surveillance footage at the intersection showed that no cars had entered or exited the intersection in seven days.
Is it possible that there are really ghosts in this world?
Or is the murderer able to fly?
…
At this time, news came from the detachment.
The autopsy results came out, and the time of death was exactly as Ye Mo estimated.
No sleeping pills, poisons or other ingredients were detected in the victim's body.
It was initially determined that he died of excessive blood loss!
In other words, the victim was most likely to have had his genitals cut off by the murderer and then bled to death.
After death, his head was cut off and his body was thrown into the wilderness!
…
The captain of the Anshui County Public Security Bureau believes that since tire tracks were found around the crime scene, the surveillance did not detect any motorcycles or tricycles leaving.
Then, the suspect is probably still in the mountains.
Therefore, he asked the detachment to send a police dog team over to conduct a large-scale manhunt in the mountains.
He thinks the murderer must still be hiding in the mountains!
There seems to be no problem with this reasoning, but Ye Mo objects to it.
Although it is spring now, it is still very cold at night in North China in March.
A normal person wouldn't be able to hide in the mountains for a day, let alone four days.
In the conference room, Xu Liqiang, captain of the Anshui County branch, and Ye Mo had a disagreement because of this incident.
"The city bureau requires that the case be solved within a month. Now I ask you to dispatch the police dog team, but you think it is troublesome. If the case cannot be solved by then, we will still have to write a review. We will not bear the blame!" After running for a day and night, no clues were found in the case. Captain Xu Liqiang was a little anxious at the moment. The new director of Anshui County had just taken office, which put a lot of pressure on him.
"Captain Xu, don't worry, leave this case to me. If the case cannot be solved within a month, I will bear all the consequences!" Lin Xuan said at this time.
"Captain Lin, although you say this, the case occurred in our jurisdiction, and we have an unshirkable responsibility!" Xu Liqiang said.
"It doesn't take a month, I solved the case within ten days, and today is the second day!" Ye Mo said directly.
As soon as these words came out, all the police officers in the conference room were stunned.
"Really, you can solve the case within ten days?" Xu Liqiang thought this was a bit exaggerated.
"Comrade Ye Mo is a professional in our Ninghai detachment. Please trust us!" Lin Xuan said.
"Okay, from now on, all the case investigators in our branch will be under your command. If you need anything, just give us an order!" Xu Liqiang said.
…
After the meeting, Ye Mo, Lin Xuan, Ye Xiaoyu and Zhang Xiaofan had a small meeting.
"Captain Ye, I think the hunter who called the police at the time is currently the most suspect. Has the task force investigated him?" Zhang Xiaofan asked.
"We have already investigated. This person can't ride a motorcycle, he doesn't have a car at home, and his behavior doesn't make sense logically," Ye Mo said.
"Yes, if he is the murderer, he wishes the body would disappear forever!" Zhang Xiaofan said.
"The clues we have now are that the murderer is familiar with the surrounding terrain, can ride a motorcycle, and the body was wrapped in a thick blue cloth, and he has a deep grudge against the victim. However, we still have no clue who the victim is. It’s very troublesome!” Ye Xiaoyu added.
"Anshui County has sent out the victim's information, and major villages and towns have also begun investigations, but so far, no news has been received!" Zhang Xiaofan said.
"I estimate that the victim is most likely not a local." Ye Mo suddenly said.
"Is there any basis for this?" Zhang Xiaofan was a little curious!
"The locals in North China are generally taller than those in the South. There are very few men who are less than 160cm tall. In addition, because we mainly eat pasta here, men's body proportions are relatively round. Generally speaking, , A man with a big belly will have thicker arms and shoulders. Like the victim, he only has a beer belly, and there are very few cases where he doesn’t have any flesh on his body!" Ye Mo said.
"What Captain Ye means is that the victim is from the south?" Zhang Xiaofan was stunned.
"For now, this is just a guess. Southerners are more delicate when they are young and rarely have big bellies. People with such big bellies as the victim should be of a certain age, at least 35 years old or above!" Ye Mo said .
